Cruises
All aspects of port business associated with the cruise ship industry. This includes announcements of home porting, contracts to build and operate cruise terminals and traffic figures for cruise ship and passenger per port/country. Leading cruise terminal operators include Global Ports Holding. Cruise ship operators in the Mediterranean include MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruises.
Palermo port’s cruise traffic rises 25.8% in 2018
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Palermo port recorded a 25.8% surge in the number of cruise passengers in 2018, Pasqualino Monti,...
Sète port to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Port de Sète’s cruise season expects to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up from 115,000...
Italy’s MSC to double cruise passenger numbers at Livorno port in 2019
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has said it plans to double the number of cruise passengers...
Constanta port hosts Medcruise meeting to promote Black Sea cruise industry
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 24, 2019 – National Company Maritime Ports Administration S.A. Constanta has hosted the February 22, 2018,...
Italy identifies three potential ports for handling cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Italy’s government has identified the ports of Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia as...
Santander port expects 4,500 cruise passengers in 2019
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Santander port expects the arrival of more than 4,500 cruise passengers this year. There are five calls...
Andalusian ports move about 1 million cruise passengers in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Andalusia has become one of the main strategic points for cruise tourism in Spain. Last year, a total...
Cruise business starts return to Odessa port
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – The Greek company Aegean Experience Maritime Co Ltd and the German Phoenix Reisen company will both...
A Coruña port expects 190,000 cruise passengers in 2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – A Coruña port has raised expectations for 2019 for record cruise passenger numbers, which predict...
Trenitalia to start operation of line linking Rome to Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Italian company Trenitalia plans to start the operation of a cruise passenger service...
Cartagena port handles first double cruise call for 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Cartagena port has the first double cruise call of the year of the planned 28 for 2019. Early in the...
Corfu to receive EU funds for port developments
Corfu, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The Port Authority of Corfu has announced the approval of the following projects of strategic importance...
MSC and Heraklion port discuss cooperation
Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The Port Authority of Heraklion SA and MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company have met to...
A Coruña port to break cruise traffic record in 2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – A Coruña port expects to surpass this year the record of cruise ship traffic with a planned calendar with...
Cádiz port to handle 286 cruise calls in 2019
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Cádiz port is forecasting 286 cruise calls throughout 2019, with May as the month with the highest number...
Caspian Sea cruises planned
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) 02.02.2019 – Azerbaijan and Russia are to develop sea cruise-based tourism between the ports of the five Caspian Sea...
Salerno port to handle 69 cruise ships in 2019
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – A total of 69 cruise ships will dock in the port of Salerno in 2019, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Las Palmas ports cruise traffic rises 7.3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – Las Palmas ports handled 1,330,553 cruise passengers in 2018, up 7.3%, with an increase...
Andalusia ports cruise traffic rises 3.1% in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – A total of 994,170 cruise passengers arrived at Andalusian ports aboard 779 ships in 2018, which represents...
Alicante port handles over 100,000 cruise passengers in 2018
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – Alicante port has closed 2018 with more than 100,000 cruise passengers arriving in a total of 54 ships,...